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A rendering of the dodo, extinct flightless bird, in this handout image released on Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 15, 2026
U.S. company announces progress toward resurrecting the extinct dodo
Colossal Biosciences plans to perform gene-editing to bring dodo traits into the cells of its closest living relative, the Nicobar pigeon.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is seen in a "selfie" that it took over a rock nicknamed "Rochette," in September 2021.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars
The rover reached the milestone 5??years into its mission to explore if conditions conducive to microbial life ever existed on Earth’s neighbor.
A calcium fluoride crystal, in its holder, that incorporates large numbers of thorium nuclei is seen inside the vacuum system of a nuclear clock, with a laser beam probing the thorium nuclei, at a laboratory at TU Wien in Vienna, in this handout image released Wednesday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2026
Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world’s first nuclear clocks
One of the scientists said he envisions uses for nuclear clocks in areas such as satellite-based navigation and the synchronization of data transfer.
An artist’s impression of a second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, the first planet of its kind to be found, in this image released on Oct. 5.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2026
Alien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
The planet is classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from a newborn star, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star.
Fruit bats rest on tree branches inside a temple complex in India
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Sep 25, 2026
Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65 million years
The largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever conducted is bringing some clarity to the puzzling past of the flying vertebrates.
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment main detector in Lead, South Dakota
WORLD
Sep 2, 2026
Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter
Researchers in South Dakota observed hints of it during a deep-underground experiment but stopped short of saying they finally detected this elusive cosmic component.
New research led by NASA scientists looking at five forms of fungi and bacteria indicates that some of them could survive for a time under certain conditions on the lunar surface — a finding that raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the moon.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2026
NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the moon
The finding raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the lunar surface.
A baked clay fragment called the Flood Tablet dating to the 7th century B.C., inscribed in cuneiform in the Akkadian language, presents the account of a great flood in the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, at the British Museum in London, Britain, in 2022.
WORLD / Society
Jul 28, 2026
Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages
During a period spanning the first millennium B.C. and ?first millennium ?A.D., humankind may have spoken tens of thousands of different languages, compared to about 7,500 now.
Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, showed huge growth, but its "pulse" appeared to be highly speculative.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2026
Satellite observations detect ‘urban pulse’ of six global cities
Researchers looked at Dubai, Lagos, Mexico City, Mumbai, Seattle and Shenzhen using a new way to document dynamic changes unfolding in each ?of these cities in near real-time.
A professional table tennis player competes against Sony AI autonomous robot Ace in December in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2026
Table tennis robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players
The feat could presage an array of other applications for similarly adept robots.
A "selfie" taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, made up of 62 individual images, in July 2025.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 16, 2026
Huge ‘bathtub ring’ may show contours of ancient ocean on Mars
A new study builds on earlier evidence of a bygone Martian ocean including studies identifying features resembling an ancient shoreline.
An artist's impression shows a stellar explosion with subtle hints of a black hole binary in the background.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 4, 2026
Scientists find evidence for theorized gargantuan star explosions
Scientists since the 1960s have theorized the existence of ultra-powerful supernovas, and have now come up with evidence for them — albeit indirect.
Chickpeas grown in a mixture that included lunar soil simulant inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 6, 2026
With lunar missions looming, scientists grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’
The development marks a step toward enabling astronauts on long-term moon missions to produce their own food.
The media-savvy Rev. Jesse Jackson advocated ?for the rights of Black Americans and other marginalized communities dating back to the turbulent civil rights movement of the 1960s.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2026
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and U.S. presidential hopeful, dies at 84
The media-savvy Jesse Jackson advocated ?for the rights of Black Americans and other marginalized communities dating back to the turbulent civil rights movement of the 1960s.
An artist's impression of the NASA Magellan spacecraft making radar observations of Venus, with the data from it indicating the presence of a subsurface lava tube in this handout image released on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 10, 2026
Radar data shows cavernous underground lava tube on Venus
Researchers said radar data gathered on Venus was consistent with a geological feature called a lava tube found in some volcanic locations on Earth and also on the moon.
A new study estimates the contribution of genes to determining human lifespan at about 50%, or roughly double ?what prior research concluded.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2026
Study finds greater role for genetics in driving human lifespan
The conclusions may have implications for research into aging as “our work validates the search for genetic factors of longevity,” said the lead author of the new study.
The "Doomsday Clock" is set to 89 seconds to midnight during the 2025 Doomsday Clock announcement in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 28, 2026
Atomic scientists set ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer to midnight than ever
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.
The skull of a Pleistocene wolf from Alaska, used for photogrammetric reconstruction of 3D models in a study on the emergence and diversification of dog morphology, pictured at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2025
Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago
New research contradicts the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding in recent centuries.
Scientists use a raft inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector located about 1 kilometer under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in this undated image obtained on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025
Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos
The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
A bright band of diffuse gamma rays glows along the map's center, which marks the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy, in this undated image based on five years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 17, 2025
Scientists move closer to confirming existence of dark matter
Scientists are confident dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects in the universe, but because of its very nature, its existence has been hard to prove.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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